I have created files that you can upload to any AI to get help with your Djangify shop. As an owner I want to make sure you can get up and running as quickly as possible. Two things that you may need help with 1. Setting up your Stripe account to receive payments 2. Setting up your email account so you can send out messages Your site will not work without email - you need it to send out messages and of course it won't work without payment details. So there is one main file that you upload first called djangify-skills and that tells your AI all about what Djangify is and what it does. Then if you need help setting up Stripe or Email there are files for those. There is also a file about what you can and can't upload so your AI understand that. These files are for AI to read. You are welcome to read them but they are simply instructions you hand over before you start so that if you get stuck you don't have to explain everything from scratch. If you use Claude then Claude can log in and do things for you if you allow it. There is a Claude Connect skills file that you can give to Claude. If you are using any other AI they can help you with things like getting your email ready and where to go to set up Stripe. If you haven't joined my newsletter yet you can follow along here: https://www.dianecorriette.com

SHOPIFY GOT MORE EXPENSIVE IN APRIL. IF YOU ONLY SELL DIGITAL PRODUCTS, HERE'S THE ALTERNATIVE BUILT FOR THAT. Shopify put its fees up again in April 2026. Online card processing went to 2.9% plus 30 cents, with another 0.6% added for premium cards and 1% for anything international. The Basic plan went from $29 a month to $39. That's on top of the 2% penalty Shopify still charges Basic plan sellers who use a payment gateway other than Shopify Payments. That's why searches for "Shopify alternative" spiked hard worldwide the same month, and have kept climbing in the UK specifically ever since. I checked this myself rather than just repeating it, more on that below. Here's the problem with almost every "Shopify alternative" list you'll find. They're written for someone selling physical stock: inventory tracking, shipping zones, warehouse integrations, return labels. If you only sell digital products, PDFs, guides, templates, courses, none of that applies to you. You end up paying for, or configuring around, a mountain of features built for a business you don't actually have. That's the gap I mean here. A Shopify alternative built for people who only sell digital products, not one more generic list built for people shipping boxes. WHAT I BUILT DJANGIFY FOR I built Djangify because I sell digital products myself, and I was tired of paying a platform built mostly for people who ship boxes. Inventory tracking, shipping calculators, warehouse plugins, none of that has anything to do with selling a download. What's actually in my eCommerce builder is a checkout, secure digital delivery, customer accounts, a blog, SEO built in, and AI tools to help you run it. You can run it two ways. Self-hosted: one payment, you own the complete source code outright, and you never pay a platform fee again. If you can ask AI (I prefer Claude Code) to do something and follow the steps it gives you, you can do this yourself. The setup guide is written for exactly that. Managed hosting: I run the server for you for a flat monthly fee, still with zero commission on what you sell. You pick a name, complete checkout, your shop is live in minutes.

The Djangify eCommerce Builder has helped me build a beautiful eCommerce shop. It's super easy to edit an change. An the video guidance Diane has set up in place also helps me whenever I get a little stuck. Can't wait to see how far I grow with her help.

I am really excited to welcome @Manda Jackson who is an AI visual content wizard. I don't do the usual please welcome post because to be fair most of us know each other from BYOB except @Artworqq Kevin Suber (belated welcome) - and everyone else I know personally. I am really looking forward to getting into visual content in a bigger way and both Kevin and Manda are brilliant and work together on a magazine.

Its the first 'Went Well Wednesday' and I am here to provide an update of what I have been up to this week. As the experiment started Monday there isn't much to report in terms of stats but I am happy with progress so far. Inspirational Guidance I updated the homepage and removed all products and blog posts. Now it is a landing page with one job - encourage registration. I also made a video. As I have 174 DE-INDEXED articles and only 4 indexed articles right now 🤬I am working through updating the more important ones. The main thing I have to do is add a couple of "real life" stories to the articles and if I mentioned research cite my sources. I am just working on that by updating 2 or 3 articles a day. The most important articles are the ones attached to my cluster pages. I mention cluster or hub pages in the classroom. Here is a link to my PAUSE Method - because this is a method I created myself I have put more EEAT Clout onto it. So, I need to make sure all the blog posts attached to this hub are indexed again. I have 6 of these cluster pages on the site. Some more important than others. I found an ebook I wrote in 2013 and I am currently updating that, which I will also add as my own method for building self-confidence. This is what I used myself to help me. If you knew me when I was in my 20s you will know it worked 😂 So, that is how I am updating my site to ensure my site is seen as trustworthy to the search engine Gods and displays my expertise. Of course I also gave the site the same EEAT boost I gave to Djangify (IG is a custom built site using Djangify) and added the back-end Schema stuff search engines and AI engines need to read the site. SUBSTACK Joined and set everything up on Monday. I have two new subscribers (not counting you wonderful people who followed me) that I didn't know before joining Substack. I am going to focus all my attention on it for the next couple of weeks - maybe month. I really love it just for being around experts and writers with knowledge and something to say.